page_title: The Vulcan, Cardiff
section_title: Demolition
hierarchical_section_title: The Vulcan, Cardiff / Demolition
caption_attribution_description: English: The Vulcan pub, Cardiff, finally closed its doors in May 2012 after a long campaign to save it. It is now being dismantled, and will be re-erected at the Museum of Welsh Life at St. Fagans. Shown being dismanteled in August 2012.
context_page_description: The Vulcan Hotel is an historic hotel and public house, that was located in Adamsdown suburb of Cardiff, South Wales. Scheduled for demolition in 2009, after a long public campaign to preserve what had become Cardiff's oldest public house, in 2012 it was donated to the National History Museum at St Fagans, where it is being reconstructed.
context_section_description: In 2009, Brains Brewery confirmed that they were to terminate their lease on the property. Site owner and freeholder, businessman Derek Rapport via his company Marcol Asset Management, had plans accepted at Cardiff Council for the demolition of the building and subsequent mixed-use redevelopment of the surrounding site, based around a multi-storey car park.
  A local campaign began to protect what by then was Cardiff's oldest surviving original public house. A petition was raised that gathered over 5,000 signatures, politicians lobbied, and celebrities including James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers and actor Rhys Ifans actively supported the campaign and visited the premises. The Cardiff band Future of the Left recorded the video for their single The Hope That House Built on the premises. But Cadw declined to make the pub a listed building, due to the fact that it had been substantially rebuilt in the 1900s and that there were better surviving examples elsewhere. However, as a result of public pressure, the freeholders agreed to a three-year extension of the lease to Brains.
  But in early 2012, Brains confirmed that they would be terminating their lease when it expired in March 2012, stating that the business was commercially unviable. With the building again threatened with demolition, but still with a growing local media campaign to save the building, Marcol Asset Management agreed to donate the building to the St Fagans National Museum of History. Brains subsequently closed the pub as scheduled in May 2012, while the museum started an appeal for photographs, objects and stories relating to the Vulcan and its history.
  In July 2012, building contractors and preservationists were deployed by the National History Museum to start deconstruction of the building by hand, to allow brick by brick movement to St Fagans. By July 2013, the de-constructed parts of the building were held between the museums sites at St Fagans and Nantgarw, awaiting planning permission for the buildings reconstruction, and is estimated to be reopened in 2019. The eventual plan is to reopen the pub with a suitably-styled historic theme, with actors serving historic ales.
caption: The Vulcan being dismantled in August 2012
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